diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 61763f27..36547ac5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 
 - `bytemuck` feature ([#292])
+- `Uint::is_zero() -> bool` ([#296])
 - `num-traits` features ([#298])
 
 [#292]: https://github.com/recmo/uint/pulls/292
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1b5127ef..173c1e66 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ ark-bn254-03 = { version = "0.3.0", package = "ark-bn254" }
 ark-bn254-04 = { version = "0.4.0", package = "ark-bn254" }
 
 criterion = "0.5"
+# clap and clap_lex, referred by criterion, have higher a MSRV (clap@4.4.0, clap_lex@0.5.1),
+# but are only used by dev-dependencies so we can just pin them
+clap = "~4.3"
+clap_lex = "<=0.5.0"
+
 rand = "0.8"
 
 approx = "0.5"
diff --git a/src/cmp.rs b/src/cmp.rs
index dec8f3cd..d4575691 100644
--- a/src/cmp.rs
+++ b/src/cmp.rs
@@ -23,3 +23,28 @@ impl<const BITS: usize, const LIMBS: usize> PartialOrd for Uint<BITS, LIMBS> {
         Some(self.cmp(other))
     }
 }
+
+impl<const BITS: usize, const LIMBS: usize> Uint<BITS, LIMBS> {
+    /// Check if this uint is zero
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn is_zero(&self) -> bool {
+        self == &Self::ZERO
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::Uint;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_is_zero() {
+        assert!(Uint::<0, 0>::ZERO.is_zero());
+        assert!(Uint::<1, 1>::ZERO.is_zero());
+        assert!(Uint::<7, 1>::ZERO.is_zero());
+        assert!(Uint::<64, 1>::ZERO.is_zero());
+
+        assert!(!Uint::<1, 1>::from_limbs([1]).is_zero());
+        assert!(!Uint::<7, 1>::from_limbs([1]).is_zero());
+        assert!(!Uint::<64, 1>::from_limbs([1]).is_zero());
+    }
+}